How to Reach 'Hard to Reach' Children: Improving Access, Participation and Outcomes (Paperback)

List of contributors.

Preface.

Introductory Chapter Every Child Matters: Setting the Context for the 'Hard to Reach' (Martin Hughes).

1 Underachieving Pupils, Underachieving Schools: What Pupils Have to Say (Lynn Turner).

2 Impression Management: Understanding and Enabling Children’s Perception of Competence (Stephanie James).

3 Containing the Emotional Needs of Adolescent Boys 'at Risk of Exclusion' in Mainstream Schools (Kathryn Anne Pomerantz).

4 WhatWorks in Reintegration Following Exclusion: Supporting the Parts Only Peers can Reach (Jackie Lown).

5 'Hard to Reach' Migrant Children (Peter Lloyd Bennett and Jane Reid).

6 A Seminar Approach to Multi-Agency Collaboration, Team Building and Therapeutic Group Problem-Solving Where Some Attendees Might be Described as 'Hard to Reach' (Michael Pomerantz).

7 Reaching Pupils on the Autistic Spectrum: Parents' Experiences, Provision and 'Professional Reachability' (Brian Willis).

8 Exploring Joined-up Solutions for a Child with Complex Needs (Heather Northcote).

9 Engaging the Hardest to Reach Parents in Parenting-Skills Programmes (Nicola McGrath).

10 Whose Voice is it Anyway? (Mary Chilokoa and Jane McKie).

Concluding Chapter Validating and Using Children's Views: Professional Dilemmas about Working Inside Agencies (David Thompson and Jo Holt).

Glossary.

Appendix 1 Bibliography of Key Documents.

Appendix 2 Searching for Explanations and Responsibilities as to Why Some Clients May be 'Hard to Reach'.

Appendix 3 Developing Good Practice with 'Hard to Reach' Children and Families.

Index.